Canal & Third Street - Kit #150 In Progress

We've been focusing on our next limited run kit these last few weeks; most of the design work has been settled on but constantly changes as the diorama is being built. If you've been keeping up with our facebook page( more on that topic later inthis blog), you've seen some teaser pics of this next kit. It's a multi-structure, multi-business, mixed media large kit. The diorama itself is 24"x 24", but each of the 4-5 structures are medium to small in size. You'll be able to seperate them, it'll be very flexible as to what you can do with the kit. We're modeling it as a waterfront scene; so far the kit is called Canal & Third Street, but these buildings are not entirely specific to the waterfront. We'll be including alternate signage for each structure, so you won't have to worry if you have a waterfront scene or not.

The scene we've set, depicts two streets converging at an angle; one is a hill, the other parallels the water. We've also added a track that cuts under the scene into a tunnel, and another behind two of the structures.

The structure in the pic above is Vernon's__________. We're not telling yet, but it's got a bit of a rambling roof, full of add ons and a large roof sign. Vernon's is modeled on the street with a hill, provided with a hydrocal stone wall foundation. You don't have to model it this way, but the option is there, it can easily be modeled flat.

That's what this kit is really about, flexibility.

Now, reagrding Facebook...we set up a Facebook page this summer, hesitantly. The jury's still not out whether or not we'll keep it up. My first inclination was that it would be a time killer, which to some degree it is. I'd rather be building a model or working on a new kit than keeping up with another internet time vortex...but on the other hand it's a good place for fellow Fos modelers to come togther, so that's where you come in, this Facebook page depends on both of us...but again I'd rather you, the modeler spend more time building than web surfing....if you've got pics of your Fos kits to post, we'd all love to see them in one place, please post away...like anything else, in moderation, don't get sucked into the black hole that is Facebook!

Let's just call it an experiment for now and see what happens. If you haven't been there yet, here's the link:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fos-Scale-Limited-Model-Railroad-Structures/113363023728?ref=ts